When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.